Quotations About Games
Related: Sports
The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.
Michael Green
The Art of Coarse Golf, 1975
The Art of Coarse Golf, 1975
Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it.
Ted Ray
Golf - My Slice of Life, 1972
Golf - My Slice of Life, 1972
You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton
Ball Four, 1970
Ball Four, 1970
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
P.G. Wodehouse
A Mixed Threesome, 1922
A Mixed Threesome, 1922
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.
Robert Lynd
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief."
James Naismith
Nothing there but basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
Ogden Nash
Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky
If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
Bob Golic
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
Brad Park
May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
Irish Blessing
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby
Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football.
S.A. Sachs
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A.A. Milne
This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.
Dick Vertleib
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
Steve Rushin
Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
Will Rogers
Hockey is murder on ice.
Jim Murray
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
Italian Proverb
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
Washington Irving
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
Abe Lemons
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
Doug Larson
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
Heywood Hale Brown
My other car is a Zamboni.
Hockey saying
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.
Sue Lawley
People's affections can be as thin as paper; life is like a game of chess, changing with each move.
Chinese proverb
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
A.K. Best
I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Tom Clark
I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser.
Arnold Palmer
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
Bill Vaughn
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series.
Steve Rushin
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
Doug Plank
Don't go through life without goals.
Hockey saying
Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.
Duffy Daugherty
I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.
Roger Maris
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Babylonian Proverb
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Roy Campanella
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears.
Bobby Jones
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.
Bobby Knight
October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.
Jason Love
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Dan Birdwell
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.
Mary McGrory
When I am not playing baseball I like to sleep and hang out with my friends playing Xbox.
Alvin Simmons
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
Unknown
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Paul Gallico
I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.
Ben Crenshaw
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
Dave Barry
A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
Jimmy Cannon
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Frank Gifford
My goal is to deny yours.
Hockey saying
There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.
Unknown
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
George F. Will
She's a machine. She lives, sleeps, eats and breathes pitching. It's her life.
Mike Lingle
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Earl Wilson
Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.
Arthur Daley
I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
Tom Tolbert
Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental.
Jim McKenny
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck
Red ice sells hockey tickets.
Bob Stewart
Fishing is the sport of drowning worms.
Unknown
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Pat Riley
Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
Grantland Rice
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Bob Lemon
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
Phil Jackson
How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
Jacques Plante
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.
Unknown
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike